San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-02
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.


THE Utes are back upon their reserys-
tion to stay. The murderers OF Colo
rows sister and that Indian child should
be in box 6x2 feet to stay there.
WHAT has become OF MoGlynn? Since
the Syracuse convention he seems TO
have dropped into the echoless depths
OF a sOundless silence.
The democracy OF New York seem
inclined to regard Henry Georgeism as
the Ben Butlerlsm OF Gotham. A rose
by any other name.
LAREDO agonizes to enter !sssv the
base ball paradise, but her geographical
conditions are uhfavOrable. Her sphere
of usefulness is not the diamond field.
You CAN cable your sweetheart In
EDgland, Ireland, or Scotland, two
weeks from date, for twelve cents
word; II she Is German lass, 1T will cost
you fifteen cents.
SEVERAL hotel schemes are on deck
and some are down in the hold. How
many will be safely brought ashore,
Time, the universal revelstor alone can
tell.
The insult offered the American con-
sui at Paso del Norte has ample confir-
nation In the sworn statement OF Col.
Cowart. Confirmation Ia one thing,
satisfaction demanded and enforced by
this government Is another thing.
SINCE heavy rains and pealing thun-
der have become common In Texas, sew
eral OF the city papers are advertising
"lightning milk shakes" They are no
relation to the Jersey lightning shakes
which prevail In prohibition latitudes.
CLEVELAND does not slop over as often
as he did. He quietly faces about on
the other track when he finds the whole
country In opposition, and then three
months later poses as the martyr Of
Misrepresentation.
The dog who went out into the beau
tiful moonlight and raising his snOOt to
the welkin made 1t ring with his howl
ing protest against the clear shining, is
very much Of q brother to his fellow
who takes up the howl against the G.
A. X. The moon and the Grand Army
both keep their appointed orbits.
The Baltimore and Ohio Express sys-
tenn has been gobbled; the Baltimore and
Ohio railway system will soon go into
the hands of syndicate; the Baltimore
and Ohio telegraph will soon be swal.
lowed up in the Unsuitable Oraw OF the
Western Union gobbler, and the whole
will be gobbled.
The opposition journals which Origi-
mated the lie concerning Sherman's fish
cries utterances, notwithstanding his
emphatic denial OF having ever held the
interview reported with Canadian off,
cials, persist In circulating the falsehOOd
and rubbing 1t in. 1t is way they
have.
The Austin drill will probably satisfy
the demands OF this section OF Texas for
1888, unless San Antonio has some
military magnates who are willing TO
guarantee the $4,000 necessary to put
the matter on lis feet successfully. The
work Of the committee on Local In
prOvement will call for all the guaran-
tees that this city is likely TO father for
the next year or two.
The Austin Dispatch has lOOsened
both suspenders and raked sheOl with
his faber, because Gov. Ross appointed
a cOlOred man superintendent of the
Texas asylum for deaf, dumb and bird
cOlOred people. The verJuice in his cup
Of condemnation lies in the fact that the
appOintee is republican. Nose has it
bad.
The White Mountains have added to
their lists of regular visitors year by
year since 1850 until today ii is the most
popular Of all the eastern summer re-
sorts. The whole mountain is swarm
ing with visitors and decent accOmmO-
dstIons very difficult to secure. San An
tonic will have just such rush in the
fall and witer of 1888.
The thanks of the Grand Army OF the
Republic are rendered the journals that
them as''pauper pensioners
TO get possession of the L. 5.
treasury. Such insults are accepted as
from men whose endeav-
Ors to break up the United States, after
having stolen her arms, armament and
treasure, were only frustrated by the
courage and devotion of the G. A. r.
In reply to the protest filed by the
wholesale grocers of Pittsburg against
the change Of classification asked for by
New York shippers, Judge Cooley in
forms the Pittsburg parties that the
will be Influenced by the
and testimony placed
before 1t, and 1t advises the Pitts
burg merchants to make out as strong a
case as they can for themselves II they
expect to get fair show in the verdict.
WILL some one rise and explain how
1t Is that every negro who is shot down
In cold blood south of Mason's and Dix
on's line is always some terrible despe-
RADIO who Is thirsting for gore, and to
take whose life is a sacred duty? Hav-
ing answered that, will some one else in
form al anxious public how 1t Is that
such things only happen in democratic
states, and that notwithstanding the
rapid Increase Of negro population in
the northern states, such shooting is
not heard of? These answered, the third
is naturally suggested. What neoes-
ssry connection is there between shoot
ing colored people and large democratic
Rjorities?
THE recently discharged keeper Of the
insane asylum at Wards Island, New
York, petitions the supreme court TO re-
lease three hundred patients confined
there who, he says, are perfectly sane.
or the other l,4J0 confined there, he
says that 1000 are harmless Iunatics.
This is probably more than can be said
OF the keeper. The man who withholds
the fact, that OF l,750 patients in luna
tic asylum, 300 are sane, and 1000 per-
fectly harmless, until he is removed as
keeper, is either fool or knave. This
to the supreme court
should have been made while il carried
with II the authority of an official sig
nature. All the same an Investigation
should be made.
The fellows who formed the rear brig
ade Of the G.. A. r., when 1t had its
headquarters In the field, are terribly
ticklish concerning the st. Louis gather
ing. 1t Is safe to say that it will not be
best for any anti-G. A. K. journal to
spread out Its transparency with the
Wheeling The reValatinns nf III at m n e, :